Lesson Plans and Activities
Lesson Plans - Subject: Literacy (Primary)
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Advertisements
Understanding Advertisements.doc
Size: 74 K
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Advertising
Advertising Influences.doc
Size: 65 K
This simple set of activities highlights the importance of advertising and the role that it has to play in business. Through designing a cereal box the lesson shows children the different techniques that manufacturers use to encourage people to buy their product. (Key Stage 2)
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Being a Healthy Consumer – Food Choice
Being a healthy consumer.doc
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These activities are designed to raise pupils' awareness of the food we eat, how we decide what to eat and the influences upon us. The activities promote responsible consumer choice in the selection of food. (Key Stage 1)
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Being Healthy and Happy, laying the foundations
GCCNI - primary 2 the cost of leisure final.doc
Size: 189 K
This lesson is designed to get the children to think about what it means to be healthy and how diet and lifestyle can contribute to whether we are healthy or unhealthy and how this may effect us now or later. It also links with 'Being a Healthy Consumer'– Food Choice lesson and Consumer Influence – the Local Leisure Centre. (Key Stage 2)
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Celebrating Diversity - Food Choice
GCCNI - primary 1 Cultural diversity final.doc
Size: 109 K
This lesson is an opportunity for the children to learn more about the diverse groups that live in the community through exploring the different food we eat. It is an opportunity to draw on the experiences of the children in the classroom and their families if appropriate. (Key Stage 2)
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Consumer Decision Clothing
Consumer Decision Clothing 1c.doc
Size: 146 K
These activities will help pupils understand the wider consequences of the clothes they choose to buy. Where clothes come from, how they are produced and by whom, and what the potential impact of this is on the individual consumer, others in the world and their environment.
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Consumer Decision Making : Making Choices
Consumer Decisions Making Choices 1a.doc
Size: 126 K
This lesson starts by examining how we make choices and then looks broadly at how changes in the way we consume mean we have become global consumers, with goods arriving from across the world. The activities are designed to raise pupils' awareness of how even simple consumer decisions can impact on others, by providing an introduction to the concept of fair trade.
This lesson can lead into more detailed exploration of fair trade issues using the contexts of clothing or toys; efficient use of resources using the context of energy consumption and the true cost of transporting goods across the globe by looking at food and food miles. See lessons 1b, 1c, 1d and 1e.
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Consumer Decisions Energy
Consumer Decisions Energy 1e.doc
Size: 128 K
These activities will help pupils understand the wider consequences of energy consumption, by looking at where our energy comes from, how we use the various forms of energy and the relative costs. It examines what the potential impact of our energy consumption is on the individual consumer, other people in the world and the environment.
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Consumer Decisions: Global Food
Consumer Decisions Global Food 1b.doc
Size: 427 K
These activities will help pupils understand the consequences of their food choices in the context of the world food market. It looks at where foods come from, how food reaches our plates and the potential impact of our food choices on the individual consumer, people in other countries and the environment.
These activities link from 'Consumer Decisions – Making Choices' by offering more focussed extension activities
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Consumer responsibility
Consumer Responsibility.doc
Size: 129 K
This series of activities are designed to introduce pupils to thinking about their local community and use contexts such as litter, vandalism and graffiti to explore how individual, family and community behaviour can impact on quality of life.
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Effective Communication – Making Connections
Effective Communication.doc
Size: 72 K
This set of simple activities is designed to introduce pupils to the world of communications; how we communicate, the services available to help us to communicate and why it is important to be able to communicate effectively as a consumer. (Key Stage 2)
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Food Choices
Food Choices.doc
Size: 163 K
This series of activities are designed to extend pupils thinking around food choices, opportunities are provided to follow two different routes - how the consequences of our choices might impact either on our own health, or how the consequences of our choices might impact on other people and the environment.
These activities can be linked in with 'Being a Healthy Consumer – Food Choice' and would offer further extension activities for 'Consumer Decisions – making choices' and 'Consumer Decisions – the global food market'
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Food Safety - Good Friends Don't Share Germs
Food Safety Primary Lesson.doc
Size: 78 K
These activities introduce pupils to the topic of Food Safety, which is an important area for all Consumers in today's society. The importance of cleanliness when preparing, cooking and storing food was stressed and we identified everyday activities where it is always necessary to wash your hands.
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Handling Consumer Information 2. – Looking at Advertising
Handling Information 2.doc
Size: 66 K
This series of suggested activities will help the pupils to begin to explore why advertising is used by businesses to sell products and services. It will also allow them to understand their own behaviour and reactions as consumers to advertising approaches.(Key Stage 2)
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Handling Information 1. – Always read the label!
Handling information 1.doc
Size: 67 K
These activities introduce the pupils to the range of information available to consumers to help them to make decisions or to protect them or both. It raises pupils' awareness about signs and symbols in everyday life and how they help consumers. (Key Stage 2)
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The Consequences of our Consumer Behaviour - – Toys and Games
Consumer Behaviour.doc
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This activity will help pupils to begin to use consumer information to make comparisons between products. It will help them to understand about the purpose of consumer information and how it can protect consumers from unsafe products. It also introduces them to the concept of best value in making choices about how to spend their money. (Key Stage 1/2).
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Understanding Our Role as Consumers – Exploring the Local Community
Understanding our Role as Consumers.doc
Size: 65 K
Using the familiarity of the local community as the focal point these activities will introduce pupils to what it means to be a consumer and the difference between the goods we buy and services we use as consumers and who provides these. (KS 1 and 2)
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Water Efficiency - Is your home water-wise?
Water - Primary.doc
Size: 874 K
These activities were designed to introduce pupils to the topic of Water efficiency at home. This is an area of growing importance for all consumers in today's society. The importance of water in general and in our everyday activities was investigated. It raised pupils' awareness of the need to conserve water and the ways they could easily do this at home.
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This simple set of class activities allows pupils to develop literacy skills in the context of advertisements. It makes children aware that at times information provided can be misleading. Further points of discussion include value for money and use of credit cards. (Key Stage 2)